dreams

  • Out of the Swollen Sea

    Out of the Swollen Sea

    I think of a story I might write: about a daughter who loses her father to the sea. She grows progressively more melancholy; her dreams haunted by man-o-war, stingray, and poisonous rockfish.

  • Don’t Dream It’s Over

    Don’t Dream It’s Over

    One of the surest indicators of change on the horizon (per the standard tropes of dream interpretation) is being pregnant in a dream.

  • What Dreams May Come

    In a culture where everything is assigned a market value, imagination isn’t in high demand. Over at The Millions, Chloe Benjamin wonders why some of imagination’s most vivid manifestations—dreams and fiction—fall so low on our priority list: But in the…

  • Self-Made Man #22: Second Person

    Self-Made Man #22: Second Person

    I guess that’s what the dream wants: for me to know that the worst kind of man, the man I was scared of becoming, doesn’t frighten me any more.